A $7 craft cocktail at the trendiest spot in San Diego? Weekdays only, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Searsucker (611 Fifth Ave., Gaslamp Quarter. 619-233-7327 or searsucker.com), a booze-centric restaurant from a chef you’ve seen on TV (Brian Malarkey, formerly of both “The Taste” and “Top Chef: Miami”).

Happy hour at the svelte cocktail bar Bailiwick (756 Fifth Ave., Gaslamp Quarter. 619-795-3036 or bailiwicksd.com) is 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, with $5 (almost) everything, from craft beers and house wine to a nice family of mule cocktails.

A Japanese snacks peddler that feels like a hip gangster den, Gaijin Sake + Noodle House (627 Fourth Ave., downtown. 619-238-0567 or gaijinsd.com) has a $10 “Zombie” bento special during Comic-Con, billed as “slow braised flesh of pig, raw flesh of fish and seared flesh of cow.” Naturally there are $6 Zombie cocktails.

Like Russian nesting dolls

Inside the gastropub Barleymash you’ll find a mellow lounge called Ginger’s (barleymash.com). Inside the burger joint Neighborhood you’ll find a false-wall of beer kegs leading to the very tiny and sophisticated bar, Noble Experiment (nobleexperimentsd.com).

Out of the way for a Con-goer, maybe. But The Lion’s Share (629 Kettner Blvd., Marina District. 619-564-6924 or lionssharesd.com) has eerie-cool decor (taxidermy; paintings of animals dressed in French military clothes). Their eclectic bar program borrows from the colonial era, uses a liquor called “the nectar of the Aztec gods” (mezcal) and doses up cocktail fans with well-crafted beverages. The daily happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. has $6 cocktails and satisfying food specials.